Chuck Pyle
Famously labeled "the Zen Cowboy" by a reviewer, Pyle is currently promoting his seventh album, Affected By the Moon. Despite his respected songwriter status, he considers himself a performer first and foremost, deadpanning that when he started writing songs he just "wanted them to be good enough that I at least wouldn't be embarrassed."

Looks like he succeeded -- Tish Hinojosa, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Suzy Bogguss, and the late John Denver all recorded songs by Pyle, as have Chris LeDoux, who had a top country hit with Cadillac Cowboy in 1991, and Jerry Jeff Walker, whom Pyle cites as a "huge influence" on his early musical career. He jokes that he first learned to play music so he wouldn't have to be a businessman, but his songs are far more observant and thoughtfully crafted than that jest implies.
-- text used with permission from the Sisters Folk Festival website.

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